Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6649, 1997, Pages 353-357

  Ida, Shigeru ^a,b   Canup, Robin M ^b   Stewart, Glen R ^b  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; IMPACT EVENT; LUNAR FORMATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0030801761     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38669     Document Type: Article

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